Thanks for your informative blog post Erik. I too used Coinbase to fund my first Steem purchase and with some other crypto earned from a couple of other sites, my Steem balance is now over 400SP. Why so much so early? Simple, I kept running out of resource credits and that impacted on the number of posts or comments I could make every day. I highly recommend all newfish get to 50SP asap, to maximise you contributions here on Steem, then continue to add more SP when you get more offsite crypto.